The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee unanimously voted to subpoena Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify on a key law that shields websites from liability for user generated content.
At the US’s major tech antitrust hearing in the House Judiciary Committee — featuring the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said he couldn’t promise that the company hasn’t violated its own policies on fair competition with third-party sellers.
The neighbourhood social networking platform Nextdoor dropped its “Forward to Police” feature this week, a widely panned function that’s faced years of criticism for purportedly facilitating racial profiling.